Mike H

Posted 02 December 2008 - 08:09 AM

If you ask me, I think these cartograms are quite gimmicky and get old quite fast. And I am not so impressed with the design of the cartograms...

I agree with you Frax - I looked at that and thought it could be generated quite quickly. Something the popular press and general public latch onto, but as cartographers, we find it not-so-impressive. It's a big data dump, and in many ways, as map designers, this is the common perception we fight to overcome: the concept that the computer made that map. In this case it is pretty close to the truth.